UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Winter 2005

Agenda for Meeting #2

• 2A, Ralph:
  • Discuss Ch. 1 of Bolts
  • Experimental Aesthetics
• 2B, Pablo:
  • The Monochord
    • The scale of the aulos
    • The exact scale of the dorian mode
    • The scale of the canon of Lespugues
  • Andy Goldsworthy
• 2C, Ralph:
  • The Stairway to Chaos (RHA MS#97)
  • The Logistic Map Family (Flash applet demo)

HW for Meeting #3

• Short essay on Ch. 1, the Venus of Lespugues
• Read Ch. 2, the Bethels of Scotland
• Chaos exercizes (hand in lab notes):
  • Flash applet: The logistic map family

References

• A Real Monochord, Purdue Univ.
• A Virtual Monochord of Greg Bossert
• Vincenzo page from the Galileo project, Rice Univ.
• Chaos: Time Perception Study by Fred Abraham et al, Silliman Univ.
• Berlyne, D. E. Aesthetics and Psychobiology
  New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971. Esp. Ch. 2.